Nice job J...You really put this closeted Edwards paritan in his place and educated him about Barack's position on iran.

Thom gave you a nice amount of air time. And your point is the one that needs to keep being made...

Why keep acting suspicious about Obama's motives when his positions are no more "jingoistic" than any of the other major candidates.

It is again that irony of the Obama detractors that I've seen. Many seemed to have convinced themselves at some point that Barack Obama was an electable version of Dennis Kucinich -- only to be disappointed when they learn that he's been a consistently pragmatic and practical person for his entire public career.

Excellent and pretty accurate rebuttal on the Iran point. Three cheers!

I am speechless

You will need your own section here at MYDD just for your wonderful video diaries

You GO boy!

I was actually listening live this morning and caught your call-in to the show. Although I love Thom Hartmann, thanks for setting the record straight for him and his listeners on Senator Obama!

Before I even listen to it, let me quess what Thom Hartmann said.

Did he say that if Barack Obama gets the nomination he will vote for him and work hard for him...because for those who ALWAYS listens to his show, that's what he always says.

But he makes no bones about the fact that he agrees with John Edwards AND DENNIS KUCINICH on a lot more, or that he thinks that John Edwards would make a great President.

Now, let me go listen to someone fighting a battle that doesn't exist.

Obama is not catching on. The one to blame for this is Obama and his campaign manager.  This isn't the fault of the MEDIA, bloggers, Thom Hartman,  or Bill Press for that matter. The Obama excitement is wearing off (i.e polls). Period. You can't resurrect something that's dying. There's no medicine to cure Obama ailing campaign. Not even Oprah.

I'm so glad you got to say your peace, lovingj, and it sounds like you threw Thom off his game a bit too <g>.

I know lots of liberals love Thom but not I. Air America in general is much more pro-Hillary and pro-Edwards and decidedly tepid on Obama, to put it kindly. It really bothers me so I don't listen to AA as much anymore. I like Nova M Radio (streamed mostly) but some of Air America's DJs (Randi, Thom, Rachel) are there too, along with rabid Mike Malloy and very sharp and big-hearted Jeff Farias of Phoenix. Randi disappoints on Obama too.

I don't want a "liberal" talk show station that does not analyze and only stumps for the Dem Party, regardless of whether the Dem is DLC (like Clinton, Lieberman, Kerry, Gore, Edwards) and therefore more anti-minority, or not DLC like Obama (and Dean, Kucinich).

I reject entirely the corporate DLC Dixiecrat-appeasing wing of the Dem Party and I do want my country back, from lobbyists, 527s and PACs especially.

Thom lost me when he stumped his English-only voting ballot rhetoric. He waxed rhapsodic about his time (paid) in a European villa learning not only the language in six months but the dialect - gasp! - with a [paid] tutor in his home. He used this example from his own privileged life to compare the mostly uneducated immigrants from Latin America, Africa and Asia who come from countries where they're lucky if they earn $2/day, where their employers are multinational corporations, and which grant them no easy legal access to the U.S., and ask "Why can't they just learn English like I coped in German?" Duh.

He wanted me to believe that these immigrants can learn English as easily as he - a privileged white professional American with a U.S. passport who doesn't have to hold down a real job - learned his German language/dialect.

I'd love to have seen him as a Black/Native American Mexican from Vera Cruz (yes, that's the typical Vera Cruzano), in Germany with no profession or English, no education beyond primary school in Spanish, no money, no time after working the average 12-16 hour hard labor days most undocumented immigrants work. Think he'd have learned German in six months?

Would someone explain to me what's more against my interest as a U.S. daughter of Latino and black immigrants - Obama's insistence on negotiating with Iran and taking nukes off the table where they'd antagonize more than they'd "fix" things (his actual and most hard-held position on Iran against attacks right-and-left) OR Thom Hartmann's English-Only voting ballots? Hmmmm.

I think it's the "liberal" who claims such love for democracy as Thom does, but supports excluding citizens from voting. Remember, those translated voting ballots are for citizens only!